I think the writer knew a lot about food and wanted to write a food novel, but it’s pretty obvious to me that he’s never worked in a restaurant. I know as a reader I should suspend disbelief, but there just seemed to be so many plot holes. And the results of this devastating incident are barely mentioned again for the rest of the book! That made absolutely no sense to me. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who might want to read it, but before Madam Mallory takes Hassan under her wing, she does something terrible, something so bad which I frankly think would be unforgiveable. I think the writer spent so much time on these elements that he forgot about the characters and the plot. And the plot – well, it just didn’t make a lot of sense to me. However, the food, the restaurants, and the location are very realistic. A lot of family members are introduced, but barely described. For example, Hassan tells us that he can’t have a real loving relationship with a woman because of his mother’s death when he was a boy, but we really don’t get any examples. It seems like Morais did more telling about the characters than showing. Hassan and his family members felt so flat, so one-dimensional. To me, the book’s biggest fault was the lack of character development.
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